Literary Radar
Articles, book reviews, literary critiques and journalistic reports around books on local and international media.
Best books of 2018: Hilary Mantel, Yuval Noah Harari and more pick their favourites | The Guardian | 03/12/2018
It's December and lists begin to bloom. What are the best books of 2018 according to Jonathan Franzen, Pankaj Mishra or Olivia Laing?
KaPow! The Super-Sheroes That Stan Lee Created | The New York Times | 16/11/18
Stan Lee created strong and complex female characters, with a character and an agenda of its own: some examples are Sue Storm, Scarlet Witch or Hela.
Pretentious, impenetrable, hard work... better? | The Guardian | 10/11/18
A dissertation on the limits between reading difficulty and literary quality concerning this year's controversy with the Man Booker prize.
Selections from Leonard Cohen’s Notebooks | The Paris Review | 7/11/18
It's been two years since Leonard Cohen died: The Paris Review publishes a small selection of his poems, drawings and annotations.
The Trouble with All the Houses I’ve Lived In | The Paris Review | 29/10/18
In the late eighties, Lucia Berlin made a list with the inconveniences of the houses she had lived in (which are not two, nor three, nor ten).
Agoraphobia and an unhappy marriage: the real horror behind The Haunting of Hill House | The Guardian | 22/10/18
"I am a writer who, due to a series of innocent and ignorant faults of judgment, finds herself with a family of four children and a husband"